[URL="http://www.indicthreads.com/"]IndicThreads.com[/URL] had their inaugural conference on [URL="http://u10.indicthreads.com/"]Upcoming Technology[/URL] on Aug 20/21 in the city of Pune, India. As the name says, the goal of this conference is to talk about upcoming technologies and Cloud Computing was the chosen topic this time. [URL="http://www.rightrix.com/harshad.htm"]Harshad[/URL] & [URL="http://www.rightrix.com/sangeeta_oak_bio.html"]Sangeeta Oak[/URL] - the driving forces behind [URL="http://www.rightrix.com/"]Rightrix[/URL] and this conference made it clear that this conference is not intended to be a training and the aim is to present the latest happening in the cloud world and get the attendees thinking. BTW, Harshad is also an [URL="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oracle-ace/index.html"]Oracle ACE Director[/URL] and a [URL="https://java-champions.dev.java.net/"]Java Champion[/URL]. The theme of the conference was easily summarized in "Learn, Discuss, Debate, Argue".

Please provide feedback for the sessions at [URL]http://u10.indicthreads.com/feedback[/URL].

I gave a session on "Running your Java EE 6 applications in the Cloud" and the slides are available below:

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I continue to stick to my philosophy of "Code is king" and showed several code samples & screen snapshots. Several attendees told me afterwards that they liked the session because it was well grounded.

The conference had a single track which gives you the ability to attend all the sessions, and there were several of them. Here are my brief notes from some of the sessions I attended. All the slides from different sessions are given below:

The Unconference at the end of Day 1 had some interesting topics like Cloud Standards, how Cloud can help fight massive scale diseases, and what a Java stack needs to provide in the cloud.

Over all, I had a great time, enjoyed some great conversations with [URL="http://dhananjaynene.com/"]Dhananjay Nene[/URL], [URL="http://vikashazrati.wordpress.com/"]Vikas Hazrati[/URL], [URL="http://www.inphina.com/wwa/ourTeam.htm"]Narinder Kumar[/URL], Rohit Naik, [URL="http://punetech.com/"]Navin Kabra[/URL], [URL="http://www.talentica.com/about_us_management.html"]Manju[/URL], Amarpal Singh, and several others. I hope more attendees can join us for an impromptu social gathering in the evening. Anyway, looking forward to participate in the future Upcoming Technology conferences and others hosted by IndicThreads.